If Ke$ha Was Into Astrobiology, She Still Wouldn't Have Made This Video

Need to teach 13-year-old Ke$ha fans about the quest for extraterrestrial life, but worried you won't capture their attention? Fret no more. Fresh off of YouTube comes a parody of Ke$ha's song "We R Who We R," refashioned into an informative and utterly dorky song about astrobiology. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm5BO03EWpI&feature=youtu.be The video credits Jank for the lyrics and video and mrskimful for the music. We applaud the creators for their shout-outs to moons like Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Titan and Enceladus--all promising destinations in the search for microbial life in our solar system. But we have to take exception to the quick, unqualified mention of bacteria that can thrive on arsenic, and the video's implication that this recent finding stretches scientists' notions about what kinds of life can exist. Have they not been following the roiling controversy over whether that finding is valid? Related Content: Discoblog: Science Sing-Alongs: Higg Boson vs Google Periodic Table Discoblog: The OK Go Video: Playing With the Speed of Time Discoblog: Evolution, With Dope Rhymes and a Funky Hip-Hop Beat Discoblog: Carl Sagan Sings Again: Symphony of Science, Part 4 Discoblog: For Honey Bee Awareness Day, Music Video Asks, “Where My Bees At?”